***A part from the meaning, the sound of words can hypnotize one into such a taste of musical joy that one can do without the meaning, but as in music one can just sink into the beauty of a phrase or progression, so infinitely more lovely is it to be able to understand the meaning behind the notes, the building up of the movement. I find it the same with the words of Shakespeare, wich have in them all shades of sound and meaning of the words there is the added joy of character. There is no writer who has touched the depth and height of character as our William Shakespeare. We can translate him into all our friends and acquaintances, not all very pleasant acquaintances but human and understandable; better still we can find in ourselves a counterpart of all his creations, that is if we are sensitive enough.